New Montefiore Cemetery
  Shown within New York | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1928[1] |
| Location |
1180 Wellwood Avenue West Babylon, New York, 11704 |
| Coordinates | 40°43′35″N 73°23′14″W / 40.72639°N 73.38722°WCoordinates: 40°43′35″N 73°23′14″W / 40.72639°N 73.38722°W |
| Type | Jewish |
| Owned by | Montefiore Cemetery Corporation |
| Size | 250 acres[1] |
| Number of graves | more than 150,000 |
| Website | New Montefiore Cemetery |
| Find a Grave | New Montefiore Cemetery |
| The Political Graveyard | New Montefiore Cemetery |
New Montefiore Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in West Babylon, Suffolk County, New York.
History
Montefiore Cemetery Corporation had been maintaining Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens since 1908. The corporation bought 250 acres from Pinelawn Cemetery for $375,000 and established New Montefiore Cemetery in 1928.[1] Burials started shortly afterwards.
New Montefiore is one of a group of adjacent large cemeteries on Long Island sometimes called "cemetery row." From north to south along Wellwood Avenue, these are the Department of Veterans Affairs' Long Island National Cemetery, the non-sectarian Pinelawn Memorial Park and Gardens, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn's Saint Charles Cemetery, and four Jewish cemeteries, which are Beth Moses Cemetery, Wellwood Cemetery, New Montefiore, and Mount Ararat Cemetery.[2]
The Shomrim Society, the fraternal society of Jewish officers in the New York City Police Department, has a burial plot for their members in New Montefiore Cemetery.
Notable burials
- Abe Beame (1906–2001), Mayor of New York City[3]
- Benny Bell (1906–1999), American singer and songwriter[4]
- Joe Edwards (1921–2007), comic book artist
- Sid Gordon (1917–1975), major league baseball player
- Morton Gould (1913–1996), musical composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist[5]
- Sam Gutowitz (1904–1991), born Sam Goody and founder of Sam Goody record stores
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940), Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, and soldier,[6] reinterred in Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem in 1964.[7]
- Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008), cardiac surgeon who performed the first pediatric heart transplant and invented the intra-aortic balloon pump and an early version of the implantable pacemaker
- Alexa Kenin (1962–1985), actress[8]
- Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1878–1939), writer, journalist, and Communist[9]
- Mae Questel (1908–1998), actress and vocal artist[10]
- Emily Remler (1957–1990), jazz guitarist
- Ossie Schectman (1919–2013), basketball player, scored the first basket in NBA history
- Zecharia Sitchin (1920–2010), Russian-born author of pseudoscience
- Seymour R. Thaler (1919–1976), lawyer, New York State Senator, and felon[11]
- Abraham Wolkin (1918–2014), chazan and operatic tenor
References
- 1 2 3 "Letter from Milton Pollack, in the case file of Pinelawn Cemetery vs. John P. Lomenzo, Louis J. Lefkowitz, and Hollis S. Ingraham, Constituting the Cemetery Board in the Division of Cemeteries in the Department of State of New York and the Cemetery Board, New York County Clerk index #12077/69". Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Department. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ↑ Rather, John (August 30, 1998). "First, the People Moved East. Now, So Are the Cemeteries". New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ↑ Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (Third ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ↑ Wilson (20160, p. 53.
- ↑ Wilson (2016), p. 290.
- ↑ "Jabotinsky Rites Today — Veterans' Organizations to Take Part in Services for Zionist". New York Times. August 6, 1940. p. 20. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ↑ Spiegel, Irving (July 3, 1964). "Israelis to Honor Patriot's Memory — Bodies of Jabotinsky and His Wife Going Back Home". New York Times. p. 25. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ↑ Wilson (2016) p. 400.
- ↑ "8,000 Honor Olgin in Funeral Parade — 45,000 Join in Ceremonies for Communist Editor". New York Times. November 27, 1939. p. 14. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ↑ Bahn, Paul G. (2014). The Archaeology of Hollywood - Traces of the Golden Age. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7591-2378-6. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ↑ Krebs, Albin (February 6, 1976). "Seymour R. Thaler Dead; Former State Senator, 56". New York Times. p. 28. Retrieved 23 September 2016.